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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In 4b30e4ee.7010...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
They are not supported by the Debian installer kernel.
They have to be installed *seperately*.
This is neither true, nor desired. Any module
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Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM:
Many systems don't have wired Ethernet, but may have wireless.
Most systems have wired ethernet. Few have _only_ wireless. Most laptops have
both. I'd venture to guess that the
Johannes Wiedersich put forth on 12/22/2009 4:10 AM:
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM:
All this might be valid statistics, but they are beyond the point. The
point in this thread is the question from a particular OP who does *not*
have access to a wired
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 12:51:46 Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Why are you
trying to beat me over the head with a statement I did not make?
And why are you so determined to rubbish the OP, who gave very valid reasons
for eschewing cabled ethernet?
Why does it, in any way, shape or form, harm you
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Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Johannes Wiedersich put forth on 12/22/2009 4:10 AM:
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM:
All this might be valid statistics, but they are beyond the point. The
point in this thread is the
In 4b30e4ee.7010...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
If there are
still any non-free drivers present in debian's kernel, those will be
removed. Some/many non-free, non-GPL or similar drivers are available
for Debian, but they are not released by Debian. They are not part of
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:10:31 +0100
Johannes Wiedersich johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de wrote:
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Which wireless is fully supported by debian and free software? I don't
think there is *any* on the planet that works without proprietary,
binary non-free code.
Yes, there is. Many Atheros
Dne, 20. 12. 2009 22:35:26 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a):
To be completely honest, I can't understand for the life of me why
anyone would
install any Linux distro from local media these days.
For example, if you have an unsupported wireless card, while at the
same time wireless is the
Klistvud put forth on 12/21/2009 5:45 AM:
For example, if you have an unsupported wireless card, while at the same
time wireless is the only connectivity available at your
location/work/home. It's my situation, precisely: I have no less than
TWO unsupported wifi cards on (both) my computers
Dne, 21. 12. 2009 13:38:01 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a):
while at the same
time wireless is the only connectivity available at your
location/work/home.
Being a non-native English speaker, I may have made myself
unsufficiently clear: my scenario is real-life, and by no means
bogus. I do
El lun, 21-12-2009 a las 12:45 +0100, Klistvud escribió:
Dne, 20. 12. 2009 22:35:26 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a):
To be completely honest, I can't understand for the life of me why
anyone would
install any Linux distro from local media these days.
For example, if you have an
El lun, 21-12-2009 a las 15:29 +0100, Klistvud escribió:
Dne, 21. 12. 2009 13:38:01 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a):
while at the same
time wireless is the only connectivity available at your
location/work/home.
Being a non-native English speaker, I may have made myself
unsufficiently
Any PC, desktop or laptop (or server), built in the last 6+ years has built-in
wired ethernet. (If yours don't have it, you went _way_ out of your way to
find
machines without it) So, in your scenario, instead of throwing your hands up
crying I can't net install because the wireless cards
Quoting Stan Hoeppner on 2009-12-20 15:35:26:
Local media installs are for pussies, or masochists. ;)
Or those lacking a decent network connection from where the machine will
primarily be used. :)
Blessed Solstice.
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Your scenario is bogus, because all semi-modern PCs have wired ethernet.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!
Well, my laptop has a broken Ethernet port. I could go and spend money on a
USB Ethernet device, but
Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM:
Many systems don't have wired Ethernet, but may have wireless.
Most systems have wired ethernet. Few have _only_ wireless. Most laptops have
both. I'd venture to guess that the few that only have wireless are the tiny
netbooks. Actually, just
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:09:46PM -0800, Cecil Knutson wrote:
Dear List,
I just tried to install Debian 4.0r4a-i386 (Etch) on a Dell Dimension
8400,
Pentium 4/3.oGHz, 4GB RAM, using two different sets of DVDs.
Pretty powerful one.
With either set
of DVDs, the install
Osamu Aoki wrote:
Etch is obsoleted distribution. Unless you have specific reason, please
use current release: lenny.
http://www.debian.org/distrib/
I have no idea what is hapening on your system. Are you connected to
network and tried to download packages? URL for archive has changed so
Kevin Ross wrote:
Only Woody and older are on there.
And Sarge. Forgot about Sarge.
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On 2009-12-20 10:11 +0100, Kevin Ross wrote:
Etch isn't obsolete, it's oldstable. It still has security updates.
Which will stop in two months. Why bother installing it when you have
to upgrade to Lenny soon anyway?
It won't be obsolete until Squeeze is released.
Wrong, the support for
Hello, Osamu,
The system is connected to a home DSL network. I did not try to
download any
packages, but that doesn't mean the install program didn't. I was using the
four-DVDs of the standard Etch distribution. It does make sense that the
install would hang if it tried to get files
Cecil Knutson put forth on 12/20/2009 1:47 PM:
Hello, Osamu,
The system is connected to a home DSL network. I did not try to
download any
packages, but that doesn't mean the install program didn't. I was using the
four-DVDs of the standard Etch distribution. It does make sense
On Dec 20, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Cecil Knutson put forth on 12/20/2009 1:47 PM:
Hello, Osamu,
The system is connected to a home DSL network.
Just do a pure net install and be done with it already.
Hi Cecil,
Stan's suggestion is correct, in spite of the way he
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:35:26PM EST, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
[..]
To be completely honest, I can't understand for the life of me why
anyone would install any Linux distro from local media these days. By
the time the media hits the shelves, there are hundreds of security
updates you have to
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 06:12:29PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:35:26PM EST, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
[..]
To be completely honest, I can't understand for the life of me why
anyone would install any Linux distro from local media these days. By
the time the media
Rick Thomas put forth on 12/20/2009 4:10 PM:
Stan's suggestion is correct, in spite of the way he chose to state it
(let's assume he was being humorous...)
Humor was my intent. I guess this is why I'm a computer geek instead of a stand
up comic. ;)
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Rick Thomas wrote:
The Lenny businesscard iso at
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-503-i386-businesscard.iso
is only 36 MBytes.
It contains everything you need to start the installation. It will
dynamically download all the other packages you need for
Dear List,
I just tried to install Debian 4.0r4a-i386 (Etch) on a Dell Dimension
8400,
Pentium 4/3.oGHz, 4GB RAM, using two different sets of DVDs. With either set
of DVDs, the install routine would hang just after the Tasksel dialog box
asking to choose the software to install. I
Hey,
I'm trying to install bugzilla on my old machine which runs Debian
etch. Aptitude install bugzilla gave me the below error code:
---Error begin
dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bugzilla.postinst: line 107:
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 21:52 -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote:
I just finished with a sucessful install of Debian Etch. However, I am
having some problems setting the screen resolution on my GNOME
Desktop. The highest resolution available is 1024x768. I would like to
set it to a higher
I just finished with a sucessful install of Debian Etch. However, I am
having some problems setting the screen resolution on my GNOME
Desktop. The highest resolution available is 1024x768. I would like to
set it to a higher resolution.
I have already editied the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and added
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